MARCELLUS: 2014 We were – all this time – searching for nickels and dimes and we’re sitting here with $100 bills.” – Bill Zagorski With just a few wells in the Marcellus yet in 2007, Range Resources could see where it was going. It had already begun work on arranging…
Nissa Darbonne, author of The American Shales, is editor-at-large for Hart Energy Publishing, LLP. She began her journalism career in 1984 in the oil and gas fields of South Louisiana, including for The Daily Advertiser (Lafayette) and The Morning Advocate (Baton Rouge). She received her B.A. in English and Journalism from the University of Southwestern Louisiana (University of Louisiana at Lafayette). She lives in Houston.
To read more of Nissa Darbonne’s commentary on U.S. shale plays, see her article on the Marcellus in the Sept/Oct 2021 issue of Oilwoman Magazine.
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